So I was (probably) the only English person in an Aussie bar in West London last night to see England lose miserably in their 3-1 defeat to Australia.
As the final whistle went, they turned the sound off the football and started playing that song that starts: “I come from the land down under…”
Oh dear.
“We’ve never done an encore, and we’ve never sold our soul and done a TV advert like all the other bands you play either…
Some bands still have principles.
We’re one of them.” [Nicky Wire, November 2002, the Jo Whiley show, BBC Radio 1]
I guess that must be a different Manic Street Preachers who recorded the song Australia, currently being using on a UK TV advert for, ahem, Australia.